Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1. What is the benefit of joining CoPs?

Have you developed some good practices in teaching and learning and hoped to share them with others? Have you wondered if other PolyU members share similar problems or worries in teaching and learning that you have encountered? CoPs is a great and free platform that welcomes people from various background to reach out for others with similar interests, share experiences, discuss problems, learn on and beyond campus, and encourage continuous improvement in order to pass on the legacy of excellent teaching and learning.

Q2. Who can join? 

CoPs is a cross-disciplinary hub for stakeholders from different disciplines. CoPs create an active and collaborative atmosphere that can enhance teaching and learning at PolyU. In general, faculty members, administrators, researchers and students are welcome. However, different CoPs may have a different recruitment strategy according to the themes. Please refer to the particular Join Us section and contact the facilitators respectively. You can join as many CoPs as you want. As for PolyU’s CoPs, we are not only passionate about teaching and learning, but are dedicated to inspiring a similar passion in others.

Q3. What kind of activities will be organised?

Individual CoP organises its own activities. These activities include but are not limited to experience sharing seminars, meetings for peer-supported learning, consultancy with experts, investigative studies into problems of concerns, development and pilots of strategies to address problems, evaluation of achievement, and dissemination of outcomes through conferences or publications.

Q4. What would I expect to do in CoP? 

CoP members are expected to actively join the activities organized by your CoP and interact with other members. We are a community that emphasises learning and sharing. Feel free to share your experiences, good practices, problems, worries or so, with other members. 

to encourage and support a culture of service on campus, inside and outside of the academic service-learning requirement and to nurture and develop our staff and students into constructively engaged citizens